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While the CIA agreed to help declassify documents and gave permission for former agents to speak at the meeting, the main Russian contribution came from Oleg Kalugin, a former major general of the KGB, the Soviet Union's intelligence service, who, because he has broken ranks with his former bosses, brought only his memories. Adding a patina of covert authenticity, the bulk of the conference took place at Teufelsberg, a once secret complex built on an artificial mountain in a forest near the outskirts of West Berlin. Surmounted by the eerie globes of eavesdropping radio antennas, Teufelsberg was a huge...
...Anjelika Krylova, 24, and Oleg Ovsiannikov, 28, can help it. The younger Russian pair train with the coach that Grishuk and Platov used to have. Despite their relatively brief partnership, they have already won the Russian ice-dancing title and collected two silver medals at the world championships. This week they hope to glide ahead of the favorites. So fierce is the rivalry that at last month's European championships in Milan, the two pairs engaged in a game of intimidation during the warm-ups, whipping by each other so closely that costumes were torn by flashing skate blades...
Robert Brustein, the artistic director of the American Repertory Theatre and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training (ART), and Oleg Tabakov, head of the MXAT, announced yesterday a partnership between their institutions that will feature a two-year, full-time, five-semester training program...
...Russian soldiers, young Vania, played by Bodrov's son Sergei Jr., and experienced Sasha (Oleg Menshikov) are ambushed and taken prisoner by a Chechen father. They are to be used as negotiating tools to facilitate the freedom of his son, who is being held in a Russian prison, despite the town leaders' repeated warnings that the Russians will bring nothing but trouble to every...
...elected despite the Duma catastrophe, but Braynin thought otherwise. The President, he reasoned, could lose without the same kind of professional assistance U.S. office seekers employ as a matter of course. Braynin began a series of confidential discussions with Yeltsin's aides, including one with First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, who at the time was in charge of the President's nascent re-election effort. Finally, in early February, Braynin was instructed to "find some Americans" but to proceed discreetly. "Secrecy was paramount," says Braynin. "Everyone realized that if the Communists knew about this before the election, they would...